Well Guys,

I am from the Sun environment and have HP, SGI and a little exposure 
to DEC. Each of these OS provides some utility for adding disks to a
system. I am sure this is no news to you.

Format under sunOS and Solaris provides an interface thus:
voyager(/)SU# format sd7
Searching for disks...done
selecting sd7: <SUN1.3G>
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
 
 FORMAT MENU:
        disk       - select a disk
        type       - select (define) a disk type
        partition  - select (define) a partition table
        current    - describe the current disk
        format     - format and analyze the disk
        repair     - repair a defective sector
        show       - translate a disk address
        label      - write label to the disk
        analyze    - surface analysis
        defect     - defect list management
        backup     - search for backup labels
        quit
format> .
 
This is the sort of utility I was refering to. Can I repair a
defective sector or manage the defect list using "disklabel"?
 
I found out that my company is scraping all our DEC 5000/200,
5000/240, and 5000/260; so some of us (Admins) want to take 
these system home or keep it in the office as sidekicks. 
This is why I am messing with NetBSD at this time. So, I am 
a NEWBIE to "disklabel" and "newfs" as the utility to partition 
a 2.1GB into 3 separate partitions.

I think easy to use utilities like Sun's "format" and DEC's "chpt"
will help this OS.

Marcel
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		  Marcel O. Chukwunenye
Lead Engineer/SW, Unix System Administrator (407)-729-5430
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Email: mchukwun@harris.com